Getting to 'Big Crater', A little premature speculation |
Getting to 'Big Crater', A little premature speculation |
Sep 21 2006, 11:57 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
Opportunity is not quite at Victoria yet, but on the horizon is a tantalising goal for the future- the big eroded crater to the south-east, the rim of which is already visible. This is the first 'large scale' topography of the mission so far. Wouldn't it be great if Opportunity could get to these hills and uncover their secrets?
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sfjcody2/route_to_big.jpg |
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Sep 21 2006, 12:58 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
For the love of god don't let a rover driver see this or we'll be attempting to jump Victoria in the rush to get there
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Sep 21 2006, 01:09 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
For the love of god don't let a rover driver see this or we'll be attempting to jump Victoria in the rush to get there Doug Tempting ain't it?... Troy will be ours! And we got the only horse that fits for the journey... http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/troy.jpg Man...I'm dizzy... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Sep 21 2006, 11:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
Tempting ain't it?... Troy will be ours! And we got the only horse that fits for the journey... http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/troy.jpg Man...I'm dizzy... Nice diagram Ustrax, a shame it's fiction! For two reasons - First, most of those features can't be seen in the original images - they are artifacts of Nico's processing. I can only see B, C & F Here are some 5x vertical + contrast/brightness of the raw 943 pancams: Second, The headings to those features are all wrong, here are the headings of the edges of the three features marked on the themis image. As you can see B & C are the "Twin Peaks" on the north rim of the crater that we have been able to see for a while. As in my earlier work, the only thing in the direction of "F" is the far rim - It's a long way, but nowhere near as far as the Gusev rim is from Spirit so there is no reason why we shouldn't be able to see that far. As we've found with the MOC images, sometimes the headings don't quite line up over large distances - I've marked (in light blue) the bit of the rim just offset from the derived heading that looks higher and what I consider to be the best candidate for "F" James -------------------- |
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Sep 22 2006, 09:02 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Nice diagram Ustrax, a shame it's fiction! I just got blinded with Helen's beauty... Now we're getting somewhere with your great work James! Another implication, besides Oppy becoming a granny faster and faster, would be the funding for the time needed to perform such a saga...but hey! Who knows? EDITED: We can work this a bit more... James, I made a new version taking in account some of your directions and others...not so quite... From the features marked what are those we can say, with no doubt at all, that are misplaced or are, truly, artifacts?: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/ustrax3/troy2.jpg -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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